An environmental law charity is to ask a judge today to shut down Alberta's inquiry into the purported foreign funding of anti-oil campaigns.

"We need targeted public health measures to limit the spread to protect our health-care system while minimizing the broader damage to our society."

Brian Jean says Kenney's "fight everyone" approach is not getting the job done for Albertans on critical issues, including energy and federal relations.

Before the extension, the inquiry into the funding of oil and gas industry critics headed by Steve Allen was to have completed the report by Sunday.

A spokesman for Alberta's inquiry into the funding of oil and gas industry critics is not confirming whether its report will be handed in by its Sunday deadline.

The eight members of the governing United Conservative caucus rejected an NDP motion in public accounts committee today to ask Kenney for the details.

A court hearing on Alberta’s controversial shift in coal policy has wrapped up. The case centres on a UCP government decision to allow open-pit coal mining on the eastern slopes.

As of Tuesday, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) lists Alberta as having 4,086 confirmed cases within First Nations.

Government documents that have surfaced show three more recreation areas in the mountains and foothills are surrounded by coal exploration leases -- for a total of eight.

In a statement on Twitter Thursday morning, the premier said Rehn will sit as an independent MLA and not be permitted to run for a future UCP nomination.